Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wired magazine about to get new publisher

Former Say Media President Kim Kelleher is expected to snag the publisher job at Wired magazine, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “The move would mean Kelleher beat out rumored inside candidate Drew Schutte, who was shifted from Wired to Details a year ago in the as yet unrealized hope that he could add big tech advertisers to the title’s fashion base.

“Kelleher worked at Condé once before as publisher of Self before jumping in 2010 to Time inc as the first-ever woman publisher of Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated.

“She was moved to Time as worldwide publisher and snagged Ad Age’s ‘Publisher of the Year’ honor.

“Kelleher joined Say Media in 2012, but resigned from that job last year after the owner of ReadWrite put plans for an IPO on hold. She remained a director of the company’s board.

“At Wired, she replaces Howard Mittman, who was made publisher of GQ when predecessor Chris Mitchell was tapped to be Vanity Fair’s publisher.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.